Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Stand-off in South Korea as investigators try to arrest impeached president
    • Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Tesla’s annual deliveries drop for first time since 2011
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
    • China’s electric-vehicle leader BYD posts record sales in 2024
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • Nvidia invested $1bn in AI deals in 2024
    • US investors in China venture funds race to comply with new tech rules
    • AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
    • Ex-crypto chief Do Kwon brought to New York to face fraud charges
    • Crypto industry dreams of a golden era under Trump
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Why it’s hard to be a friend of America
    • Things have to get worse to get better
    • Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • Pensions: the industry where women are in charge
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • One hundred million fans cannot make you famous
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • WNU, the fashionista’s favourite shirtmaker, now makes blazers, too 
    • Social pressure holds back sales of alcohol-free drinks, research finds
    • ‘Do 50 press-ups and a daily meditation’ – the 10 wisdoms of Yohji Yamamoto
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Sheikh Hasina

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Bangladesh asks India to return ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

    Request likely to heighten tensions between Dhaka and New Delhi already raised by toppling of former prime minister

    Sheikh Hasina
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Tulip Siddiq
    UK minister’s links to ousted Bangladesh leader under scrutiny after corruption claims

    Tulip Siddiq has cited the support of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, and her Awami League party

    Montage shows Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina with UK City minister Tulip Siddiq against a backdrop showing the Awami League’s logo
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh tycoon says Singapore citizenship is a shield against central bank ‘intimidation’

    Mohammed Saiful Alam considers international arbitration over accusations he siphoned money out of banking sector

    Vehicles stuck in a traffic jam along a main road in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    InterviewBangladesh
    Bangladesh’s leader says ‘no place’ for Sheikh Hasina’s ‘fascist’ party

    Muhammad Yunus says will not seek exiled leader’s extradition from India before domestic tribunal’s verdict

    Yunus spreads his hands while sitting in a plush gilt armchair
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh central banker accuses tycoons of ‘robbing banks’ of $17bn with spy agency help

    Conglomerate rejects claim it co-operated to siphon money out of the country during rule of ousted Sheikh Hasina

    Sheikh Hasina
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    OutlookJohn Reed
    Where is Sheikh Hasina?

    A cloak of discretion is likely to surround the whereabouts of the deposed strongwoman — and by New Delhi’s design

    Sheikh Hasina
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

    Emerson Bainbridge House in London
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    India accuses Bangladesh’s interim leaders of failing to protect Hindus

    Rising tensions complicate attempts to mend a vital partnership after Sheikh Hasina was toppled

    Protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Global fashion brands cut Bangladesh orders after turmoil

    Producers in world’s second-largest garment exporter say customers are concerned about violence and disruption

    A worker at Apex Footwear in Dhaka
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    ‘Dhaka has turned into Gotham’: On patrol with Bangladesh’s vigilantes

    Neighbourhood groups try to impose order after collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s regime leaves security vacuum

    Syed Bipro stands with a cricket bat resting on his shoulder
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Muhammad Yunus
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for free speech and independent judiciary

    Interim government leader and Nobel laureate says Sheikh Hasina left behind ‘complete mess’

    Yunus sits surrounded by the family and officials
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Alec Russell
    How autocracies endure — and end

    Strongmen rulers are not immune to a wave of incumbency fatigue spreading across the world

    Illustration of a military helicopter with the blades and rear rota drawn as a red X from a ballot paper
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Students take charge of Bangladesh megacity after ousting Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters who toppled the long-ruling prime minister now control the streets of Dhaka, but challenges loom

    Young people wave and cheer in front of a fire at the PM’s official residence
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Yunus warns against Bangladesh anarchy

    Nobel Peace Prize winner sworn in as head of interim government leader after appeal for end to violence

    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arriving at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted

    Toppling of long-governing prime minister is a major setback for New Delhi

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in June 2024
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for new elections after political turmoil

    Nobel laureate agrees to lead interim government after protests toppled autocrat Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in Dhaka on Monday
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head interim government in Bangladesh

    Appointment announced after dissolution of parliament opens way for creation of interim cabinet

    Bangladesh Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka in January
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Bangladesh’s power vacuum

    A swift transition to a democratically elected government is vital

    Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    How the world’s longest-serving female leader was toppled

    Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule over Bangladesh met a sudden end. Now protesters worry about what’s next

    Protesters overrun Sheikh Hasina’s grand residence in central Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country

    Army chief announces long-ruling leader’s departure after demonstrators storm her official residence

    Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Scores killed in Bangladesh as pressure mounts on Sheikh Hasina

    Army deployed to enforce ‘indefinite’ curfew after garment factories and government buildings set on fire

    A garment store on fire
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh top court scales back job quotas that sparked violent unrest

    Quota system had triggered deadly protests that resulted in clashes with security forces

    Armed soldiers in armoured vehicles patrol the streets
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Dozens killed in Bangladesh unrest as protests spread

    Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in the world’s second-largest garment exporter

    Aerial view of smoke rising from burning vehicles near the Disaster Management Directorate office in Dhaka
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in power at Bangladesh election

    Crackdown on opposition and rights abuses have drawn criticism from US and EU

    Officials count ballot papers at a polling station in Dhaka after the end of the Bangladesh election on Sunday
  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
    Person in the News
    Sheikh Hasina: the Bangladeshi premier determined to retain power

    Re-election appears certain but economic strains may test the population’s patience with her autocratic style

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Sheikh Hasina
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In